Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.
HENRY CLOUDThere is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform, sends fuel to the brain.
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Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
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For someone’s character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
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In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.
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If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy.
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A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
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A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
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